Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) had died in a tragic comics-based moment during The Amazing Spider-Man 2, leaving Peter with a huge handful of issues he’d no doubt have had to deal with at some point - whether in the Sinister Six movie or the third Amazing Spider-Man film (or both). While it’s tough to speculate how the abandoned Sinister Six movie (which was planned to come out first) could have set the stage for The Amazing Spider-Man 3, other threads left hanging in the second film were more clearly left open for further exploration in a sequel. The Sinister Six already had been teased in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, presumably setting up what could’ve been an epic Spidey showdown if Sony had stayed the course. Sony intended to bring the Sinister Six into the fold with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lost writing veteran Drew Goddard directing what would’ve been one of several Spidey movie spinoffs (another being Venom, under different creative guidance than the current Ruben Fleischer-directed version). But in the years since our friendly neighborhood wall-crawler joined the MCU, a surprising amount of fun possibilities have surfaced.įor one thing, Sony’s Spider-Man franchise was meant to spin off into an entire movie-verse that could compete with Marvel’s growing MCU. **Spoilers ahead for Spider-Man: No Way Home**īut now that Garfield’s making headlines once again, sharing some fun screen time with Holland in Spider-Man: No Way Home, we can’t help but wonder: What kind of Spider-Man stories did Sony leave lying on the table when it made the big pivot away from The Amazing Spider-Man and toward the MCU? Since we never got a third (and fourth) Amazing Spider-Man movie, there’s no way to know for certain. When data hackers targeted Sony Pictures in late 2014 and exposed a bunch of confidential info on upcoming movies, Sony finally decided to hang up Garfield’s Spidey suit - seemingly for good. Sony’s 2015 deal to bring Spidey into the MCU fold forever changed the course of Marvel movies far beyond the new direction the web-slinger took from previous Spider-Man films, but it also effectively brought The Amazing Spider-Man series, only midway through its planned four-movie run, to an unceremonious and abrupt halt.ĭirector Marc Webb and star Andrew Garfield’s collaborative take on Peter Parker was only just getting warmed up when The Amazing Spider-Man 2 closed things out in 2014, teeing up a bunch of future Marvel character introductions and comic book-based events that, sadly, never got the chance to grow into the full-scale Spidey franchise that Sony originally had planned. Even with an entire Spider-Verse at our disposal, it’s hard to envision Spider-Man in the movies these days without the anchoring presence of Tom Holland.
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